VNX [EOL] Benefits

RS
Storage Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company saved money in maintaining the unified platform in most of our locations and has the ability to perform backups and replication of the unit with similar arrays.

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it_user127905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

It is very easy to create new storage for a new requirement. Adding more storage to an existing storage pool is very quick and easy.

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it_user238902 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We actually stopped using the VNX as it was ill-equipped to handle our environment with the way EMC spec’d it out. I do not recommend the Gen 1 VNX to anyone in this day and age. It’s outdated technology and a newer far less expensive array can more than adequately handle 99% of the tasks better than the VNX architecture.

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VNX [EOL]
March 2024
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it_user697029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

A hybrid tiered storage such as VNX enables data where IOPS is critical to be placed in SSD and archive data to be placed in NL-SAS disks where the IOPS are not in demand.

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it_user81207 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

By utilizing the Storage Pools feature of the VNX, our organization can provide the required performance without having to over-invest in storage for data that doesn't require expensive drives.

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it_user637809 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Sales Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We took a while to jump onto VNX – largely for file with our block storage handled by EMC Symmetrix. VNX turned out to be the rugged little brother that went in, did the job and kept on working while using the same tools – but at lower price.

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it_user334509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It’s one of the better industry-accepted names and standards. Not necessarily cheap, but for me it’s all about familiarity. I've worked with this type of storage for many years.

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it_user647445 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware and Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is our Tier-2 storage which is easy to provision from and has decent performance.

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it_user441645 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Exploitation at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

All the environments of the company are consolidated into only one storage. Physical end virtual systems are on the same cabinet.

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it_user734148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asst.Manager - IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

With more than 145 applications including SAP for different businesses running in our environment, our requirement was always to have a storage with a very good response time and performance.

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it_user637818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director de Explotación IT. COE. at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

All of the VMware farm is configured into this storage.

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it_user519738 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator – Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A hybrid, tiered storage such as VNX:

  • Enables data where IOPS is critical to be placed in SSDs
  • Archives data to be placed in NL-SAS disks where IOPS is not in demand
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MC
Works at i4

It didn't perform as advertised because the instant snapshotting feature while working as advertised slowed down the performance of the entire storage solution.

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it_user755361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate, Enterprise Systems, EMEA & APAC Technology Services

Unified VNX allows us to consolidate our storage for better efficiency.

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it_user281955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director with 51-200 employees

Unisphere provides a one-stop go-to place to manage all my VNX storage arrays, saving me time, and screen space.

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it_user263403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

All our storage is now in two places, a primary site and a DR site. Network shares, VM storage, etc. all come from the same physical infrastructure at both locations. Instead of getting more servers for storage, we were able to over-provision this and have had plenty of storage for the past two years. We recently just added another DAE to both locations pretty easily which extends the storage even more.

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it_user188622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager / Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In a virtualized infrastructure based on VMware Hypervisor, the VNX series SANs provide some useful vendor specific features for us.

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AS
Solutions/Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Improved Performance: Since implementing VNX, we achieved a 10 times increase in the performance for its end users.
  • Increased Scalability: As we continue to grow, VNX can scale to meet the needs of the growing business without compromising performance.
  • Simplified Management: VNX's ease of use and Unisphere management software allow us to provision new storage in just minutes and instantly view its performance.
  • Data Protection: VNX's replication solutions deliver comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery.
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it_user417420 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure and Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has enabled us to consolidate storage, both primary and secondary, on a single platform. This simplified administration provided the necessary performance to our virtualized infrastructure.

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AV
Professional system engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

As long as I have been working at my current company, it has always been one of EMC's biggest customers, and has had the most EMC certified engineers in the world, so the company's whole business is based on EMC's products.

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it_user637824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It has a simple-to-manage GUI and provides very good performance for the load-intensive applications. Also, the data tiering capabilities are good.

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it_user713796 - PeerSpot reviewer
Territory Manager

VNX 5200 works well with a medium VMware cluster. It has good performance and enables hardware disk replication. This is great, because before that, the customer was using a software replication solution that had many problems.

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it_user732744 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Dhaka Bank Limited

With respect to high I/O load during peak business hour and stable replication (remote site mirror), VNC has improved very well. The user is facing less "Administratively Fracture" or "System Fracture", as when using their previous system.

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it_user330870 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can deploy quickly and it’s storage-based, making it data-focused that provides a virtualized and structured way of moving data.

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it_user262434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We need, in real time, to be able copy in more than two data centers, and EMC gave us a better solution with great performance.

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AZ
Works at AIT

It has very simple management with reliability and also security. We do not have any complexity with these products.

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it_user262752 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • With raid pools, you aren't limited with RAID size.
  • Snapshots will ease your testing on the applications.
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it_user478692 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Officer - Hardare & Software
  • It has increased our availability as we have gone to full virtualization.
  • It has greatly improved our efficiency as we have reduced server deployment time.
  • It has also reduced our energy costs as we now have fewer servers with its support for virtualization.
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it_user229383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect - EMC at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This entry level product has just enough premium features to make it effective. One example is when a client was able to leverage the thin capabilities of the array and it's tight VMware integration to go from a legacy array taking up lots of rack space and power to a 2U VNXe1600 which helps reduce the amount of rack space and in turn power and cooling requirements

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it_user736935 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In a banking environment, on which we required a very high throughput for our database, we have used this product and our desired response was received.

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it_user736938 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultor de soluciones de tecnología

With integration, you can compress, and reduce the load of your Oracle DB, in relation to HCC.

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it_user870861 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We have all the information residing on the same hardware, the same storage. So if the servers go down, we have already secured the data in the storage.

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Buyer's Guide
VNX [EOL]
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VNX [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.